Thanks, BobW! A 1990ish Summilux 35 is close to the end of the 'Lux II model run. I think they made them up to about 1995, an amazing lifespan really, as it was first delivered in 1967. Such it is with brilliant lenses, they're ageless. I had mine coded so that it triggers the lens code reader automatically, makes it convenient to use on modern digital M and the other bodies using the Leica mount adapter, and it embeds the lens info into the EXIF data properly that way.
About a year and a half ago, I bought a Panasonic GX9 body for similar purposes to what you got the GX8 for. I have a good kit still of FourThirds and Micro-FourThirds lenses. I had that compact Oly pancake zoom but never really liked it, I handed it off with the Oly E-PL7 to my niece a few years back. What I use on the GX9 is mostly one of the Olympus Body Cap Lenses (15mm f/8 or 9mm f/8 FishEye), which makes it extremely thin and extremely light, or the Panasonic/Leica Summilux-DG 25mm f/1.4 ASPH — a truly great, fast normal lens … my usual favorite for most cameras. Just like the 'Lux 35/1.4 on the Leica CL body is. I also adapt other lenses to it occasionally, usually long telephotos, because it does incredibly well with them for hand-held work due to its excellent IBIS implementation. The GX8/GX9 cameras are good. They're also more complicated than I really prefer, but I use mine pretty simply. One of these days I'll read the manual… LOL! The Leica CL is much much easier to figure out without touching the manual. :) Fun stuff. I've run out most of the 8 exposures with the Polaroid today, and I think I made a couple of good photos in that. It's an easy camera to use and love, but the medium is so limited it's a fun challenge to get what I want out of it. onwards, G — Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." – Charlie Brown > On Jun 26, 2021, at 3:11 PM, Bob Pdml <[email protected]> wrote: > > Always an interesting pleasure to see what you do with this stuff. I have one > of those S’luxes, from 1990ish. Lovely little lens. > > I agree about digital cameras. Just today I have bought a used Panasonic > LUMIX GX8 to supplement the slightly larger Oly EM-1 II. It has only 755 > shutter releases, and was a very good price. My plan is to use it with the > Oly pancake zoom as a small but tough and decent quality camera for my > handlebar bag, when I’m back on the bike. I think one of the reviews I read > suggested it is rather like the film Leica CL. > > > >> On 26 Jun 2021, at 22:23, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Bird Feeder - Santa Clara 2021 :: https://flic.kr/p/2m7MMjS >> - Leica CL + Leica Summilux 35mm f/1.4 (1972 version) -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
